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Book The Dream of a New Social Order

Download or read book The Dream of a New Social Order written by Matthew Schneirov and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1994-10-27 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dream of a New Social Order

Book Commonism  the Manifesto of a New Social Order

Download or read book Commonism the Manifesto of a New Social Order written by Indu Prakash Singh and published by Mittal Publications. This book was released on 1991 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Epic of America

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Truslow Adams
  • Publisher : Simon Publications
  • Release : 2001-10-01
  • ISBN : 9781931541336
  • Pages : 433 pages

Download or read book The Epic of America written by James Truslow Adams and published by Simon Publications. This book was released on 2001-10-01 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully written story of America's historical heritage, by one of the country's greatest historians.

Book Rhetoric  Through Everyday Things

Download or read book Rhetoric Through Everyday Things written by Scot Barnett and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rhetoric, Through Everyday Things is the first book-length collection of essays that explore the vibrant materiality of everyday objects in rhetorical theory, practice, and writing. It examines how things such as food, bicycles, and typewriters can influence history and sociality.

Book The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture

Download or read book The Oxford History of Popular Print Culture written by Gary Kelly and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Planned nine-volume series devoted to the exploration of popular print culture in English from the beginning of the sixteenth century to the present.

Book The Vegetarian Crusade

    Book Details:
  • Author : Adam D. Shprintzen
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2013-10-07
  • ISBN : 1469608928
  • Pages : 285 pages

Download or read book The Vegetarian Crusade written by Adam D. Shprintzen and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-10-07 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vegetarianism has been practiced in the United States since the country's founding, yet the early years of the movement have been woefully misunderstood and understudied. Through the Civil War, the vegetarian movement focused on social and political reform, but by the late nineteenth century, the movement became a path for personal strength and success in a newly individualistic, consumption-driven economy. This development led to greater expansion and acceptance of vegetarianism in mainstream society. So argues Adam D. Shprintzen in his lively history of early American vegetarianism and social reform. From Bible Christians to Grahamites, the American Vegetarian Society to the Battle Creek Sanitarium, Shprintzen explores the diverse proponents of reform-motivated vegetarianism and explains how each of these groups used diet as a response to changing social and political conditions. By examining the advocates of vegetarianism, including institutions, organizations, activists, and publications, Shprintzen explores how an idea grew into a nationwide community united not only by diet but also by broader goals of social reform.

Book Plays in American Periodicals  1890 1918

Download or read book Plays in American Periodicals 1890 1918 written by Susan Harris Smith and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-07-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines over 125 American, English, Irish and Anglo-Indian plays by 70 dramatists which were published in 14 American general interest periodicals aimed at the middle-class reader and consumer.

Book Conserving Words

    Book Details:
  • Author : Daniel J. Philippon
  • Publisher : University of Georgia Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780820327594
  • Pages : 402 pages

Download or read book Conserving Words written by Daniel J. Philippon and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conserving Words looks at five authors of seminal works of nature writing who also founded or revitalized important environmental organizations: Theodore Roosevelt and the Boone and Crockett Club, Mabel Osgood Wright and the National Audubon Society, John Muir and the Sierra Club, Aldo Leopold and the Wilderness Society, and Edward Abbey and Earth First! These writers used powerfully evocative and galvanizing metaphors for nature, metaphors that Daniel J. Philippon calls “conserving” words: frontier (Roosevelt), garden (Wright), park (Muir), wilderness (Leopold), and utopia (Abbey). Integrating literature, history, biography, and philosophy, this ambitious study explores how “conserving” words enabled narratives to convey environmental values as they explained how human beings should interact with the nonhuman world.

Book The Sunday Paper

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul Moore
  • Publisher : University of Illinois Press
  • Release : 2022-08-30
  • ISBN : 0252053494
  • Pages : 530 pages

Download or read book The Sunday Paper written by Paul Moore and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pullout sections, poster supplements, contests, puzzles, and the funny pages--the Sunday newspaper once delivered a parade of information, entertainment, and spectacle for just a few pennies each weekend. Paul Moore and Sandra Gabriele return to an era of experimentation in early twentieth-century news publishing to chart how the Sunday paper became an essential part of American leisure. Transcending the constraints of newsprint while facing competition from other media, Sunday editions borrowed forms from and eventually partnered with magazines, film, and radio, inviting people to not only read but watch and listen. This drive for mass circulation transformed metropolitan news reading into a national pastime, a change that encouraged newspapers to bundle Sunday supplements into a panorama of popular culture that offered something for everyone.

Book Christian Register and Boston Observer

Download or read book Christian Register and Boston Observer written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature

Download or read book Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature written by Richard Fallon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the term 'dinosaur' was coined in 1842, it referred to fragmentary British fossils. In subsequent decades, American discoveries—including Brontosaurus and Triceratops—proved that these so-called 'terrible lizards' were in fact hardly lizards at all. By the 1910s 'dinosaur' was a household word. Reimagining Dinosaurs in Late Victorian and Edwardian Literature approaches the hitherto unexplored fiction and popular journalism that made this scientific term a meaningful one to huge transatlantic readerships. Unlike previous scholars, who have focused on displays in American museums, Richard Fallon argues that literature was critical in turning these extinct creatures into cultural icons. Popular authors skilfully related dinosaurs to wider concerns about empire, progress, and faith; some of the most prominent, like Arthur Conan Doyle and Henry Neville Hutchinson, also disparaged elite scientists, undermining distinctions between scientific and imaginative writing. The rise of the dinosaurs thus accompanied fascinating transatlantic controversies about scientific authority.

Book Leon H  Keyserling

Download or read book Leon H Keyserling written by Donald K. Pickens and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leon H. Keyserling: A Progressive Economist is the insightful biography of the life and thought of the influential liberal reformer Leon H. Keyserling. By examining Keyserling's life in the context of integrative liberalism, the biography aims to explore the origins of the concept of integrative liberalism and Keyserling's profound and provocative contribution to it. The book follows the political reformer's life from the beginning of his career as a member of Democratic Senator Robert Wagner's staff, at the same time showing how the Progressive Movement, before World War I, was the ideological and institutional origin for integrative liberalism. The Great Depression and subsequent New Deal, to which Keyserling was a significant contributor, allowed integrative liberalism to develop until the movement started losing vitality in the 1960's and came to an end during the Reagan Presidency. In the meantime, the book presents Keyserling as a major sculptor of Truman's economic policies, after which he left the government and began effectively debating public policy on his own. Tracing Keyserling's interactions with each presidency, the biography shows that Keyserling's policies and politics were expressive of integrated liberalism, an often-overlooked philosophy of reform in the second half of the twentieth century. The ideological cornerstone of integrative liberalism was a full employment public policy, expressed as economic growth and developed directly from United States history. The fear driving the policy was that there would be wide swings in the business cycle, resulting in underemployment and economic stagnation. This sentiment and fear has an impact even now in the twenty-first century, making Leon H. Keyserling a timely and profitable study for graduate and undergraduate students of history, economics, political science, and public administration.

Book Unity

Download or read book Unity written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Untimely Ruins

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nick Yablon
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2010-06-15
  • ISBN : 0226946657
  • Pages : 397 pages

Download or read book Untimely Ruins written by Nick Yablon and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American ruins have become increasingly prominent, whether in discussions of “urban blight” and home foreclosures, in commemorations of 9/11, or in postapocalyptic movies. In this highly original book, Nick Yablon argues that the association between American cities and ruins dates back to a much earlier period in the nation’s history. Recovering numerous scenes of urban desolation—from failed banks, abandoned towns, and dilapidated tenements to the crumbling skyscrapers and bridges envisioned in science fiction and cartoons—Untimely Ruins challenges the myth that ruins were absent or insignificant objects in nineteenth-century America. The first book to document an American cult of the ruin, Untimely Ruins traces its deviations as well as derivations from European conventions. Unlike classical and Gothic ruins, which decayed gracefully over centuries and inspired philosophical meditations about the fate of civilizations, America’s ruins were often “untimely,” appearing unpredictably and disappearing before they could accrue an aura of age. As modern ruins of steel and iron, they stimulated critical reflections about contemporary cities, and the unfamiliar kinds of experience they enabled. Unearthing evocative sources everywhere from the archives of amateur photographers to the contents of time-capsules, Untimely Ruins exposes crucial debates about the economic, technological, and cultural transformations known as urban modernity. The result is a fascinating cultural history that uncovers fresh perspectives on the American city.

Book Labor and Urban Politics

Download or read book Labor and Urban Politics written by Richard Schneirov and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This finely detailed narrative is the definitive account of the rise to power of the Chicago labor movement amidst the 1877 railroad strike, the 1886 struggle over the eight-hour workday, and the 1894 Pullman strike. Hinging on a major reinterpretation of the Haymarket era, Labor and Urban Politics argues for labor's profound influence on the shaping of urban politics and the transformation of liberalism in late nineteenth-century America.''After this book, no one will have any excuse to write about late nineteenth-century politics in Chicago, or any other city, solely on the basis of the actions and interests of elites. Schneirov argues for the importance of the working class in municipal politics on a level that surpasses anything else in the literature.'' -- David Montgomery''The most thorough, deepest re-reading of Gilded Age reality that has yet emerged from labor historians. . . . Gives an unparalleled understanding of the world of contemporary labor.'' -- Leon Fink, author of In Search of the Working Class: Essays in American Labor History and Political Culture A volume in the series The Working Class in American History, edited by David Brody, Alice Kessler-Harris, David Montgomery, and Sean Wilentz

Book Christ and Society

Download or read book Christ and Society written by Donald Macleod and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Rebirth of Religion

Download or read book The Rebirth of Religion written by John Herman Randall and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: